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April 11, 2014

Quotes that aren't from "The Wire"

These are not quotes from HBO's critically acclaimed Dickensian epic "The Wire". These quotes are not accurate for the most part -- nor, if they are accurate, are they accurate reproductions of that show.

"Let's be startin', then."

"It's all in the game."
"You know it."

"The game is on!"
"Always."

"As real be, as real do."

Prop. Joe: "Meeting adjourned, Proposition Joe."
Young Dealer: "Yo, these minutes be like hours."
Joe: "We runnin' a criminal fuckin' enterprise here. These minutes be like years. You just ain't see it, young'un."

"If you in the thick of it, they lookin' to skim some off ya."

"Our true colors deep down, McNulty, and we ain't white and black."
"What are we then, Omar?"
"We red and green. And if you ain't makin' green, you're runnin' red. I'm just the motherfucker with a color wheel. Chaos, ya feel me?"

"We got enough dope to feed the world, haha."
"Burn it all, yo."
"What'chu say?"
"World ain't enough to get the cops off our corners."

"I'm going legit, Avon. The city of Baltimore will be ours and the fucking cops will be off our backs forever. I got a hundred million invested in every dime store, slush fund, and 7-11 in the goddamn city. We kings now, Avon, and nothing can stop us."
"Stringer, I always knew you ain't know shit about shit."
"What? I have all the papers. We have political favors from every single establishment in the city, and regionally. Everyone depends on our supply of dope. If we stopped dealing, the whole city would dry up. Our mayor would get impeached, the governor wouldn't get re-elected, and all our schools and 1000 businesses would go belly-up. We have them by the balls, Avon, and they don't even know it yet. We could literally become aristocrats, travelling around the world and shit, and no one could say shit. Because we'd be powerful, man. We would have the power. Our right-hands could get paid and up a high-rise theyself. We could sip champagne for the rest of our lives with this monster dough and we wouldn't have to sling another ounce our whole lives."
"Stringer, I'll wet you up."
"Why? We livin the dream, Avon. The dream! And we're as ruthless as the streets ever were! You want some blood to end? Just name a name."
"If it ain't bleed from the corner, it ain't even blood."
"What?"
"I'm out. Have fun slingin' on the corners without me."
"Okay?"

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